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Vandyn

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Everyone on the tech support forums who is getting to the end is getting the Status: Canceled no one there, and the ticket number page still proclaims the service is unavailable. NA region not important enough to get weekend support.

Actual official way on how you're supposed to get Live Chat support:
1. Go to:https://support.na.square-enix.com/
2. Login to your account in the middle right of the page.
3. Top right corner ofhttps://support.na.square-enix.com/click on support.
4. From the banners in the middle click the FFXIV one.
5. From the 4 big blue squares click the third one that says Billing or payment issues.
6. Click on the button that says Additional Assistance
7. From the dropdowns on Category assistance select Account/Billing and from the other one Additional Services. Enter a brief summary.
8. Ignore any suggestions and click on Next.
9. Fill out the ticket form with detailed information and click Next
10. Verify the form is filled out correctly and hit Submit

This should bring up the page with your ticket number (bookmark this), it will either specify "Chat service is currently unavailable." below the CS hours or have a button link to the live chat service with the appropriate ticket number in the URL. The ticket should be correctly attributed to your account since you're logged in and visible below your account name on the middle right ofhttps://support.na.square-enix.com/.
Confirmed nobody in NA is fucking working today, at least not with their chat support. Waiting 2 hours, got to end of the queue, no agents available. Just for the hell of it I did follow your steps here and it gives me a chat support link. So they are basically letting you think they are there when they probably are not.
 

Korrupt

Blackwing Lair Raider
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08/31/2013 4:19 PM Several Worlds Technical Difficulties (Aug. 31) We are currently experiencing technical difficulties wherein players are being disconnected from instances on the North American and European data center Worlds. As a result, customers who were disconnected from said content are unable to log in.

The issue is being addressed, and new updates will follow as additional information becomes available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

[Date & Time] From Aug. 31, 2013 12:53 a.m. (PDT)

[Details] - Disconnected from certain instances.

Unable to log in after being disconnected from certain instances.

[Affected Worlds] North American and European Data Denter Worlds - Adamantoise

Balmung
Behemoth
Cactuar
Cerberus
Coeurl
Diabolos
Excalibur
Exodus
Faerie
Gilgamesh
Goblin
Hyperion
Lamia
Leviathan
Malboro
Midgardsormr
Moogle
Odin
Phoenix
Ragnarok
Sargatanas
Shiva
Siren
Ultros
 

RobXIII

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Why do you people do this to yourselves?
We do it for you: Misery! No but it's a fun game when you can get in, and weekends are typical good MMO time, especially the rare-spawn "Long Weekend".

Now I'm getting 1017'd before even picking a world, they've caught on to my shenanigans! /jk
 

Sean_sl

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Confirmed nobody in NA is fucking working today, at least not with their chat support. Waiting 2 hours, got to end of the queue, no agents available. Just for the hell of it I did follow your steps here and it gives me a chat support link. So they are basically letting you think they are there when they probably are not.
Yep, these guys are the biggest bunch of fucktards to ever launch anything. I can't believe any one would stick up for these shitheads at this point. Square-Enix is nothing but incompetent.
 

Column_sl

shitlord
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Yeah, im one of the few that really havent had any problems since phase 4.

I'm not sure if I have que priority since I played in phase 3/4, early access, and live.
I've never really had any log in problems other when they go completely down, or they take the servers down completely.

I've played the shit out of this game, and I feel for the people that can't play. That is a clusterfuck for SE.

Reminds me of when Everquest went down for 2 weeks at launch, and was only able to play for one day before that. It was the worst waiting to play again after seeing a game like that.
 

Arkael

Lord Nagafen Raider
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I'm not sticking up for them at all, they're fuckups of astronomical proportions and I can't believe this shit didn't get ironed out in the 3 years it took them to rebuild the game or during a real beta test (which they never did). I say this as someone who has had very little problems playing due to the fact that I just never log out. There's no excuse for having no functioning queue, terrible server stability and a clusterfuck account site. Not to mention in game quality of life stuff like mounted npc interaction, companion + mount without resummon and the total mess that animation locked off-gcd abilities is causing (try popping tanking cooldowns without a 3 second delay on a Paladin).

All that being said - the game is a fun and addictive old school MMO that keeps calling me back despite all the above bullshit. How long that will last, we'll see. They better get it together.

edit: can't forget about the fact that it took them a week to realize that letting people stream/youtube the game is a GOOD IDEA. Most high profile streamers dropped this shit day1 when the word got out that they could have Square Enix come after them for what basically amounts to free advertising for their shitheap
 

Springbok

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I'm starting to believe that they've banned streaming/youtube videos because they knew it would be nothing but drunken gamers streaming 1017's out the ass. Like they knew this was going to happen. I'm being completely serious as well, ha. Finally hit 50, and still hooked. Turns out I have a ton of shit to do after hitting 50, so I better get to it!
 

Column_sl

shitlord
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They didnt allow people to stream because of some weird thing with there voice actors in the cut scenes. Some kind of contract thing where they would have to pay them more before the official live date.

Some people got the blessing of Square Enix to stream the game all the way from early access, but they were not allowed to show cutscenes.
 

misery_sl

shitlord
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I'm starting to believe that they've banned streaming/youtube videos because they knew it would be nothing but drunken gamers streaming 1017's out the ass. Like they knew this was going to happen. I'm being completely serious as well, ha. Finally hit 50, and still hooked. Turns out I have a ton of shit to do after hitting 50, so I better get to it!
Could you explain what some of those things that you will be doing for fun after hitting max level are? Does it feel like those things will be able to keep you interested in the game for a month or more? I might give this game a try in a few months when the dust settles.
 

Column_sl

shitlord
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Misery, its a 100% a carrot on a stick MMO.

So if you like that type of thing, that is what you can expect at 50.

Get tier 1 raid gear so you can get even better gear, rinse and repeat.
It's not some revolutionary MMO, it just gets allot of oldschool things right. Unfortunately, like everyone else has noticed outside of the game is a nightmare of log in issues, account problems etc.

Inside the game its smooth as butta. Probly one of the best optimized MMO's ive seen.
 

Arkael

Lord Nagafen Raider
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Inside the game its smooth as butta. Probly one of the best optimized MMO's ive seen.
Agreed, minus one glaring issue - get more than a few people on your screen and the game starts clipping people/pets/MOBS off your screen randomly. Behemoth was a hilarious mess. Fucking console limitations.
 

Cinge

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Agreed, minus one glaring issue - get more than a few people on your screen and the game starts clipping people/pets/MOBS off your screen randomly. Behemoth was a hilarious mess. Fucking console limitations.
It works fine I would say about 40-50ish people, but get above that and it goes to hell. Fights like svara were great the first 2 days I was there, but once more people got into the zone it became that culling nightmare.

Doesn't help that players all seem to have their minions out and choco's out.
 

Springbok

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Yup, just grinding gear - leveling tradeskills, etc. However, I can say with a certainty that its the best MMO released since WOW (for ME) and it isn't even close. Got max level in GW2, SWTOR, Rift, and played TERA (couldn't even be bothered to level past 25... awful game)... none kept me going for more than a few weeks to a month. This might not either, but whether it does or doesn't is largely irrelevant to me.... it is flat out better than those other games.

That said: These account issues, server issues and shit are completely fucking unacceptable - and I can't even imagine the amount of sheer incompetence and arrogance that these fuckers at SE have to have to release the game with these problems. Ruining a great chance at redeeming a declining, money gushing company with issues that could have all been completely avoidable. Really shocking stuff. They deserve all the credit in the world for making the game good and fun to play, and all the criticism possible for the other issues TENS OF THOUSANDS of people are experiencing.
 

swayze22

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Agreed, minus one glaring issue - get more than a few people on your screen and the game starts clipping people/pets/MOBS off your screen randomly. Behemoth was a hilarious mess. Fucking console limitations.
Yep i am noticing this more and more. NPC icons not appearing over heads from <20 yards away etc

can't even get chars to show up now. pretty much have to stay in game to play these days
 

RobXIII

Urinal Cake Consumption King
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Wow, been losing the log-in battle all day today. I told myself I would not be 'that guy', but man when I eventually do get in I'm not logging out until right before I have to go back to work :p

/switch to windowed mode when afk to keep the GPU from melting @ 144FPS
 

Neki

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So I've noticed all the praise this game has been given from you guys has gotten me interested, what is the recommendation on whether or not to buy?
 

Menion_sl

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So I've noticed all the praise this game has been given from you guys has gotten me interested, what is the recommendation on whether or not to buy?
When is the last time you have seen an MMO on these boards or FOH be praised this much? That in itself should answer your question.
 

Sean_sl

shitlord
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So I've noticed all the praise this game has been given from you guys has gotten me interested, what is the recommendation on whether or not to buy?
Do not buy this piece of shit. You won't be able to make a character to play with anyone as the character creation on servers is totally locked and if you do have a character you can't get in most of the time. A lot of people also have their accounts totally fucked and Square-Enix support doesn't exist at all. They have, hands down, the worst support out of any game company.
 

Malakriss

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You can't buy digital download packs right now and in most places you can't even find a physical box. So kind of moot at present.
 

jooka

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I really like the game but they won't be getting anymore $$$ from me till they fix the server issues. Save yourself the $$$ till they hopefully get the issues worked out with their server hardware.